Business/Performance Analyst 12 month Internship
ContentsLocationFor roles based in London, your contractual place of work will be Stratford. While the Stratford site is expected to become operational from November 2025 March 2026, you will be required to carry out your contractual duties from Vauxhall or another reasonable location on a temporary basis during the interim period.
Please note that, as Stratford will be your contractual place of work, any subsequent move from a temporary location will not entitle you to payments for travel time or costs under the Relocation and Excess Travel Policy.
Job summary
Information about the Command
Threat Leadership is responsible for the national response to the Serious Organised Crime (SOC) threats. Our role is to work with partners both inside the NCA and externally to set the strategic direction, facilitate effective delivery of the response, and ensure we understand the impact of our activity. Adopting a threat-led and intelligence driven approach, we identify emerging challenges and changes to the threat landscape. A key objective is to tackle SOC threats by maximising the benefit of new capability across the system. This approach means we can achieve more with the resources we have and be more effective developing business cases to enhance our response.
Driving the multi-agency UK 4P (PURSUE, PREVENT, PROTECT, PREPARE) response by agreeing threat priorities, influencing tasking of operational activity across law enforcement, facilitating partner action and informing policy, regulatory and legislative changes to better protect the public. Threat Leadership leads the national response for Organised Immigration Crime (OIC), Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking (MSHT), Drugs, Firearms, Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) and Borders. Threat Leadership is also home to the National Cyber Crime Unit, which combines Cyber threat leadership with an operational response.
Information about the Business Area
The NCCU is the UK lead for tackling the threat from cyber crime. For the first time, the UK has a single Unit with the responsibility and capability to lead the overall response, coordinate activity across a range of partners and provide specialist cyber support and expertise across law enforcement.
Role Summary
Join the National Cyber Crime Unit (NCCU) and bring your unique skills to lead the UKs fight against cybercrime! No previous cyber experience is necessary, but you should be curious to find out more. We want to work with like-minded individuals who are inquisitive and are keen to drive work forward.
We are looking for people from a range of backgrounds and/or degree disciplines to spend a whole year working in the National Cyber Crime Unit (NCCU).
This role would be suited to those looking for a year in industry in their degree, who have just finished their studies, or who are seeking to transition to a role within cyber.
We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment. We welcome neurodivergent thinkers and offer reasonable adjustments to those who need them.
Job description
In this role, you will be at the heart of shaping the response to the cyber crime threat both within the NCA and beyond. It is a role requiring a strategic outlook, strong interpersonal skills, and the ability to respond and deliver quickly and accurately.
Depending upon your experience your role will either be as a business or performance analyst working in one of our 4P, Strategy or Performance teams.
Our 4P teams lead the PURSUE, PREVENT, PROTECT, and PREPARE response to the cyber threat, working with a range of partners across the system to set the strategic direction, agree priorities, coordinate activity, and deliver specific projects to tackle the threat.
PURSUE focuses on the UKs operational, law enforcement response to tackling cyber-crime. PREVENT is focused on deterring, diverting and disrupting individuals from becoming involved in and committing cyber offences. PROTECT looks at ways to build resilience and keep businesses and individuals safe from cyber-attacks. PREPARE works to test the preparedness of the UK to large scale cyber events at the highest priority level across national and regional levels.
The Strategy and Performance teams lead the NCCUs strategic engagement with Her Majesty's Government (HMG), Team Cyber UK incl. National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and other Partners in support of the response to cyber crime. The team lead on corporate briefings and supports senior leaders across the agency as they represent the NCA on cybercrime issues. The ability to analyse data, information and statistics and write reports will be beneficial.
Duties and Responsibilities:
Tackling cybercrime - Promoting a whole-system approach to tackling cybercrime, ensuring that the NCCUs work is accurately measured, aligned with national objectives, and continuously improved, by engaging with internal and external stakeholders.
Problem Solving - Tackle problems in an efficient manner, utilising innovative and/or automated approaches where appropriate.
Undertake research and analysis - Understand how NCCU and wider Team Cyber UK (TCUK) work together best.
Team working - Work closely with colleagues across all teams to build and deliver new tooling and/or approaches.
Stakeholder relationship management - Contributing to effective System Leadership, working with stakeholders to drive collaboration and performance across the network, maintaining a network of contacts to enable communication and access to information across TCUK Data-driven approach Ensuring that the NCCU operates with a data-driven, intelligence-led approach to cybercrime disruption. Responsibility for performance tracking, system-wide impact analysis, ambition setting, disruption monitoring, and reporting; providing strategic oversight that enables the NCCU to align resources effectively and respond proactively to emerging cyber threats
Compliance - Ensure the quality, secure handling and dissemination of information, maintaining confidentiality, sensitivity and duty of care in line with NCA policy. Ensure oversight in data ethics standards and legislation frameworks, and uses these to review and improve existing processes
Person specification
| Skills, Knowledge and Experience | Description |
| Microsoft Office, including Excel and PowerPoint | Preparing and delivering slides for a range of senior Governance forums. Consolidating whole-system performance data for strategic insights, allowing for a clearer understanding of NCCUs overall impact |
| Data analysis | Uses analytical skills, varied sources of information and different methodologies to support decision-making. |
| Quality assurance | Supporting the delivery of high-quality, data-led strategic briefings to internal and external stakeholders (including media engagement/coordination), ensuring messaging is consistent, accurate, and aligned with NCCUs strategic direction |
| Cyber awareness | Understanding of the impact of new technologies in creating opportunities for offenders. |
| Keen collaborators | Able to seek new, and maintain existing, internal and external relationships |
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Working Together
- Managing a Quality Service
- Learning and development tailored to your role
- An environment with flexible working options
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
- A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
Artificial intelligence
Selection process details
How we will assess you
- Demonstrate your awareness of the Cyber Security landscape, emerging technologies and the threat this poses to the UK
- Experience of analysing data, information, and statistics from a wide range of sources
- Experience of planning, projects and working to tight deadlines
Longlist
In the event of a high number of applications, we may operate a longlist. Applicants will need to meet the minimum pass mark for the lead criteria.
'Demonstrate your awareness of the Cyber Security landscape, emerging technologies and the threat this poses to the UK'
Candidates who do not meet the minimum pass mark for the lead criteria will not progress to having their other criteria assessed. Applications must meet the minimum criteria to be progressed to the assessment stage.
You will receive an acknowledgement once your application is submitted.
We aim to have sift completed and scores released within 10 working days of the closing date of the advert. For high volume campaigns this timeframe may be extended.
Scores will be provided but further feedback will not be available at this stage.
NCA Applying and Onboarding
Assessment 1
The format of this assessment will be Interview which will be tested on the criteria listed in the Success Profiles at Assessment section.
Success Profiles at Assessment
- Working Together
- Managing a Quality Service
- Demonstrate your awareness of the Cyber Security landscape, emerging technologies and the threat this poses to the UK
- Experience of analysing data, information, and statistics from a wide range of sources
- Experience of planning, projects and working to tight deadlines
If successful but no role is immediately available, you may be placed on a reserve list for 12 months.
Reserve lists can be used to fill similar role types across the Agency where the assessment criteria is considered a match by the recruitment team and the business area.
In the event of a tie at the assessment stage, available roles will be offered in merit order using the following order:
- Lead criteria (behaviours/technical/experience)
- If still tied, desirable criteria will be assessed (if advertised)
- If still tied, application sift scores will be used
Vetting requirements - SC Enhanced
Occupational Health
Near Miss
If you meet the criteria for a lower grade, you may be offered that role if not appointable at the advertised grade.
Conversely, if found appointable at a higher grade but no posts are available, you may be offered a lower-grade role.
All offers are made based on merit.
Hybrid Working
Reasonable Adjustments
Were proud to be a Disability Confident Leader and an inclusive, equal opportunities employer.
Were committed to creating a workplace where everyone can be their authentic self. If youre neurodiverse, have a disability, or live with a long-term health condition, we encourage you to let us know about any reasonable adjustments you may need during the recruitment process.
If you experience accessibility issues with the advert or require reasonable adjustments, please contact our Recruitment Team at Central.Recruitment@nca.gov.uk before the advert closing date.
Please ensure you complete the Equal opportunities and 'Reasonable Adjustments' sections in the application form to inform us on what support you may need in the recruitment process.
For more on our Disability Confident commitment, visit Disability Confident Scheme , Civil Service Careers.
Visit NCA Benefits and Support for more details.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
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Nationality requirements
This job is broadly open to the following groups:
- UK nationals
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
- individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
- Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
Working for the Civil Service
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
Diversity and Inclusion
Contact point for applicants
Job contact :
- Name : Non-Perm Team
- Email : nonpermcheck@nca.gov.uk
Recruitment team
- Email : nonpermcheck@nca.gov.uk
Further information
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